Summarise the talk
The video is devoted to the problems of traditional universities, and it talks about the attempt of scholar David Helfand to redesign tertiary education. The narrator begins with the popular idea that universities are close to demise. The speaker goes on to say today colleges perform multiple social tasks and these tasks are contrary to the main goal of universities - education.
David Helfand uses a personal example to encapsulate the difference between the attitude of students to study at different stages. The narrator points out that fourth-graders ask questions with insatiable curiosity and without shyness, while students consider this as a weakness. In addition, Dr. Helfand says that students do not pay for knowledge, but for an academic degree.
As a result, such a situation motivated the speaker to create a university of the 21st century. The main purpose is to open up minds and lead forth. There are several fundamental rules of this university: the absence of departments and professorships, seminars instead of lectures, a special curriculum and block system of classes.
The author concludes that the primary aim of the current education system is to teach students to conquer discouraging situations that fill the 21st century.
In my opinion, the world is changing rapidly, but education is lagging behind these changes. Now there is a new generation of students who need to be taught not only theoretical knowledge, but also analytical thinking, soft skills, etc.
- Problems of modern universities 56
- Some people think that getting a degree from a university is the best way to guarantee a good job others believe that it would be better to go straight into work and get experience instead Discuss both sides and give your opinion 56
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of open group discussions during class Express your opinion 84
- Extreme or adventure sports are becoming more popular among teenagers What are advantages and disadvantages of doing these types of sport 73
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of learning a foreign language at an early age 56
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 236, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... that universities are close to demise. The speaker goes on to say today colleges p...
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Line 2, column 378, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... knowledge, but for an academic degree. As a result, such a situation motivated ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, while, in addition, as a result, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1259.0 1615.20841683 78% => OK
No of words: 237.0 315.596192385 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31223628692 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.92362132708 4.20363070211 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97918122922 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 176.041082164 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.628691983122 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 392.4 506.74238477 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 5.43587174349 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.0257980633 49.4020404114 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.916666667 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.75 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41666666667 7.06120827912 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0275909956366 0.244688304435 11% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0093532740959 0.084324248473 11% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0310213007374 0.0667982634062 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0125073816722 0.151304729494 8% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0250147633443 0.056905535591 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 78.4519038076 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 11.2359550562 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 9
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